Information and Human Capital Managment
34 Pages Posted: 13 Oct 2008
Date Written: October 2007
Abstract
An increasingly important organisational design problem for many firms is to recoupgeneral human capital rents while maintaining attractive career prospects for workers. Weexplore the role of information management in this context. In our model, an informationmanagement policy determines the statistic of worker performance that will be availableto outside recruiters. Choosing different statistics affects the extent of regression to the mean which, we show, in turn affects the incidence of adverse selection among retained and released workers. Using this observation, we detail how optimal information management policies vary across firms with different human capital management priorities. This view of human capital management via information management has strong implications for labour market outcomes. We discuss the impact on average wages, wage inequality, wage skewness and labour turnover rates.
Keywords: human capital, information disclosure, regression to the mean, adverse selection, turnover, wage distribution, human resource management
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